London - A Star Trek shuttlecraft that was used in the original 1960s TV series has been sold for an incredible 45,000 pounds.
The team that is behind the winning bid has promised to restore the hollow shuttlecraft and tour it for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek in 2016, and find a permanent museum home for the prop.
The rusty shell needs a lot of work to be done on it and looks far from its glorious days in the 1960s when it was used by Captain Kirk and Spock.
The shuttlecraft had been owned by collector Lynne Miller who had kept it in storage in Ohio for five years.
She had bought the prop in the 1980s for 3,000 dollars and had started to restore it.
The lettering “USS Enterprise†can still just about be made out on the side of the vehicle.
“The shuttle sold for 70,150 dollars. The buyers are a group called - The Galileo Restoration. The main two individuals involved are Adam Schneider and Alec Peters who head up the team,†the Daily Mail quoted auctioneer Brooks E. Ames as saying.
“This is the original prop used in the TV show Star Trek. Known as the Galileo NCC-1701/7.
“The shuttlecraft is approximately 24 feet long and 14 feet wide. The outside needs some work,†he added.
The restoration efforts are expected to be quite expensive, and Schneider and Peters said that they will reach out to fans in the near future to help fund the restoration of the shuttlecraft.
The original television series had run from 1966 to 1969 and starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
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